How the American people have been fooled into letting the Federal government encroach on their rights by Danny Cali
(libertarian)
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
America has been played the fool and has resulted in its decline. Not uncommon for those who trust and are honest when dealing with others. You may think that you are not a fool and you may not be, but the population has been fooled and sold a bill of goods that has nothing to do with what the promise that this once great nation offered to those who are honest, God loving people. When and why did America’s decline all start and where are we going next is going to be the thrust of the columns that I offer here. You may disagree with my assessments or you may be enlightened by them, either way, I hope it will engage you to think and before you disagree, looks at the facts as presented here and if I am proven wrong in my assessments, I will correct in future columns.
So by now, you may be asking yourself where did the decline start and why did it start. America was founded on the premise that we are a free people that do not need a centralized government in order to take care of the issues that may come up. People have forgotten that the Federal Government, as it was originally formed, had only two main functions: To deal with foreign governments that either want to trade with us or harm us and regulate commerce between the states. Everything else was to be dealt with locally at the state or local government level. It was when the government stepped outside those bounds is when America’s decline started.
America’s decline did not start with anyone purposefully doing it. It was done because the federal government thought it could tell the states what to do. I will premise this with that what the federal government wanted to do was based upon very altruistic reasons. The abolition of slavery was the right thing to do, but the way the federal government went about it was wrong and it gave the very first inroads into stepping outside the constraints placed upon it. When the federal government wanted to mandate that the states had to do that the states did not want to do, the states, who were sovereign, disagreed with what was being thrust upon them. They succeeded from the U.S. and became the Confederate States of America.
Lincoln, in order to preserve the union, invaded the Confederate States. In order to fight this war, he suspended the Bill of Rights. This opened the door for more injustice from the federal government in the future. The only constitutional way to end slavery is by passing an amendment to the constitution, as it happened anyway after the war. The 13th amendment, which was passed by Congress January 31, 1865 and ratified December 6, 1865, ended slavery. Section one states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Over six hundred thousand men did not have to die; all the federal government should have done is follow constitutional law.
It has been stated but not verified that Lincoln said "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." It is hoped that you, dear reader, will stop being fooled and will begin to understand. In future columns, I will attempt to show further federal encroachments and how slowly they happened to put us where we are. Then offer solutions that hopefully will reverse the decline.
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